Thursday

05-03-2026 Vol 19

Category: Congress

Nancy Mace and Cory Mills clash over failed censure vote

GOP Reps. Nancy Mace and Cory Mills are locked in an escalating personal clash over Mace’s failed effort to censure Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar for her response to the...

Capitol agenda: Democrats steer into a shutdown

Democrats are flirting with a shutdown. Their endgame is unclear. Democrats are rallying around a hard-line approach to try to bring Republicans to the table to strike a government...

Democrats’ shutdown endgame is sketchy as deadline looms

Party leaders hope a new offer will spark negotiations. That’s about as far as the plan goes.

Democrats unveil funding alternative to counter GOP in shutdown brawl

Preparing to tank the Republican plan to avert a funding lapse on Oct. 1, Democrats are offering their own proposal.

How 1 bureaucrat’s retirement could give Donald Trump new sway over Congress

The comptroller general of the Government Accountability office will step down in a few short months, leaving a void atop the agency that has found the White House guilty...

GOP defections sink effort to censure Rep. Ilhan Omar

Several Republicans joined all House Democrats in voting to sink a GOP-led measure to formally condemn Rep. Ilhan Omar and remove her from her committees. The 214-213 vote ended...

Kash Patel doubles down on his handling of the Epstein files in heated Hill testimony

The FBI director took oncoming during two days of oversight hearings on Capitol Hill.

House eyes Friday vote on stopgap as partisan tensions flare

GOP leaders believe they will need to heed the chamber’s 72-hour-review rule.

Kash Patel says court orders bar him from releasing the Epstein files. Judges have said otherwise.

FBI Director Kash Patel claimed Wednesday that he is barred by recent court orders from releasing thousands of documents connected to disgraced sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. “I’m not going...

Jim Jordan goes after Adam Schiff at FBI oversight hearing

House Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan on Wednesday opened FBI Director Kash Patel’s second Congressional oversight hearing in two days by going after a former colleague, Sen. Adam Schiff. "Why...